SayAgainSlowly, I only quoted two specific figures, the price of a four seater with instructor at Cabair and an average landing fee. The Cabair price is straight off their website and doesn't include their fuel surcharge. Their price for a 2 seater is £141. Those are the facts (see
http://www.cabairflyingschools.com/selfflyhire.htm). I'd imagine that Cabair are the largest school in the country, so they might be the most expensive but I don't see how one can thus say that 150 is way over the odds. Elsewhere is cheaper and pointing the original poster to those places might be more useful.
I agree that a fuel surcharge is silly - it should be included in the wet rental price, but adding a surcharge is what some clubs do, so again, it's a fact of the matter.
Glad to hear your own club is really busy.